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John Heneghan’s Old Time Radio Show

Roots of the Cheap Suit Serenaders from John’s 78 rpm record collection.

1. Alabama Jubilee (The Gang’s All Here) – Hoke Rice

2. Chasin’ Rainbows – Dallas String Band

3. I Want A Little Girl – Mckinney’s Cotton Pickers

4. She Lived Down By The Firehouse – Pie Plant Pete

5. Make My Cot Where The Cot-Cot-Cotton Grows – Red Nichols’ Stompers

6. Moana March – Kalua Players

7. Laughing Rag – Roy Smeck

8. I’m Gonna Get It – Hokum Boys

9. I Had But Fifty Cents – Jack Golding

10. Singin’ In The Bathtub – Four Hawaiian Guitars

11. Chile Blues – Rodney Rogers’ Red Peppers

12. Hapa Haole Hula Girl – Kalama’s Quartette

13. Sing Song Girl – Leroy Sheild

14. My Gal Sal – Tom Gerunovich And His Roof Garden Orchestra

15. Ready For The River – Emerson Gill & His Bamboo Garden Ocrh.

16. HanoHano Hawaii – Waikiki Stone-Wall Boys

17. Pussy – Harry Roy And His Bat Club Boys

Robert Crumb & Robert Armstrong

Robert Crumb Robert Armstrong & Allan Dodge

on the street circa 1975

Zwigoff, Dodge, Armstrong & Brozman

Crumb & Armstrong

Cheap Suit Serenaders circa 1977

Dodge, Crumb & Armstrong 2009

East River String Band w/ Meredith Axelrod, Robert Armstrong & Blind Boy Paxton SF 2010

scene from Ghost World, “Not a very good band…”